Skip to content

Gold Quote by Ai Weiwei

“Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra…” quote by Ai Weiwei — Download Open image

“Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Gold Gold medal Gold medals Judging Measuring Medal Men Potency Prestige Viagra

More by Ai Weiwei

I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

Image

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Image

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their…

Image

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

Image

This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the…

Image

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

Image

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our…

Image

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

Image

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets…

Image

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road…

Image

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world…

Image

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Image

Explore all 359 Ai Weiwei quotes

More Gold quotes

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

Image

Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is…

Image

With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta…

Image

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Rabindranath Tagore

Image

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

Image

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

Galileo Galilei

Image

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in…

Alfred the Great

Image

Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.

Image

No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up…

James C. Collins

Image

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it…

Image

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

Image

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

Image

Browse all 3,494 Gold quotes